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Just a reminder to send in your entries for the September Desktop Wallpaper contest soon. Unlike the other months, we’re commissioning a theme this time. The theme is to use the cover art for the upcoming album, Straight Outta Lynwood. Your entries must include the cover image un-altered. Sure you can put it on a great background like the February calendar did, or make it look like it’s at the bottom of a dumpster, although that probably won’t get it selected, but ya can’t go changing Al’s head with say, that of Carrot Top. Maybe you could show the masses of people who will be, nay I say ARE standing in line, and camping, waiting for the album to show up in music stores. Well, if YOU are in that line, you must have some kind of net connection, so there’s no excuse. Get to work!
You will need

1. The cover art.
2. The Al-oholics Anonymous September calendar.
3. The Al-oholics Anonymous logo.
4. The rules for submitting an entry.
5. Some editing tool that will let you submit your 1600×1200 entry in a Photoshop file format with all layers left unmerged.
6. Some good creativity to make it all look good.

The deadline for this will be EXTENDED. All entries must be submitted by midnight TUESDAY, AUGUST 29th. Good luck!

That’s right. There’s more Al-goodness coming your way tonight!

VIDEO WORLD PREMIERE!
That’s right, we’re not messin’ around here! The first music video from “Straight Outta Lynwood” premieres TONIGHT (Tuesday the 22nd) on Yahoo at 10 PM Pacific time!

Check out the handy time zone converter to see when you can start watching it.

While you wait, visit DontDownloadThisSong.com and send all your friends a DDTS e-card!! You can also listen to the song and download it there too!

Yay! It’s finally here! Listen to Don’t Download This Song right now! Listen to it, download it, burn it to CD-R, DO IT DO IT DO IT!!!

Don’t forget, Al’s first single for Straight Outta Lynwood will be available in only a few short hours, at 6:00 PM Pacific, for free download, on Al’s MySpace.

Let’s see, that’s at 6:00 PM if you live in California, or 9:00 PM if you live in New Jersey, or 3:00 AM on Tuesday if you live in Zimbabwe. If you’re not sure what time that is where you live, click here to find out. (more…)

I don’t know how to use that neat “more” thingy Happy Steve used, so if you want to remain spoiler free, stop reading NOW. (more…)

Commentor Tracy A. has done a little detective work and got confirmation on exactly what new music video that Al is currently rounding up extras for. I dunno, I guess this could be somewhat spoiler-ish. So I’ll try hiding the name under this “more” link. I’m not exactly sure how this will look to the RSS readers, but I guess now’s a good time as any to test it out…

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Holy cow, you might be an extra in Weird Al’s next video!

We’re shooting a music video this month, and we need a few extras. The only 3 requirements are: 1) You must live in the greater Los Angeles area, 2) You must be between 18 and 24 years old, and 3) You must not mind working for FREE.

Aw man, I don’t qualify for 1 or 2, but YOU might! Check out the link above and be on your way to mega stardom overnight!

Just wanted to remind everyone that “The Weird Al Show” drops TODAY (Tuesday, August 15) on DVD. The 3-DVD boxed set contains the entire 13-episode run of Al’s 1997-98 CBS show, with commentaries on every episode and lots of cool extras! Pick up a copy at your favorite terrestrial or online DVD distributor! Go ahead, we’ll wait for you.

Can you believe it? There’s even more great news from Al!

Al’s letting us listen to the first single off Straight Outta Lynwood on August 21 at 9:00 PM Eastern (6 PM Pacific). That’s over a month before the album is relased!!!

But wait, that’s not all! He’s gonna let us download the song too. For FREE!!! Read all about it on Al’s MySpace, the same place you’ll go on August 21 at 9:00 PM Eastern (6 PM Pacific) to listen to and download the song.

*head explodes*